Metablip (a blip about blip)

Blimey, I must get a headset for my phone - trying to do everything (including the endless washing-up) while clutching the handset between my ear and shoulder is giving me a permanently cricked neck. And when my sister and I get talking whole civilizations can come and go.

So, posting when I should be sleeping, but today's blip is a little different, because hope got me thinking more about what I've already been enjoying thinking about (thoughts about thoughts!) with blipfoto.

By the way, metadata (for the non-geeky types) is 'data about data' - an example would be the records your digital camera keeps about each photo you shoot. Hence, metablip :)

I'm finding it fascinating how the very processes of blipping influence the blip, and how blippers are influencing each other. I love the concept of "Know the taste of a pear", an expression I had not heard before.

The particular onscreen moment I've used I chose because first, my L-plates came off today (which is the only time in my life this has happened) and second, I'm just geeky enough to get a kick out of noticing all those ones and zeroes and like the whole binary inference.

We as humans love to celebrate significance in numbers and milestone events, and in the Book of Blip, passing ten is the First Iconic Transition. The Second Iconic Transition seems a long way off at the moment :)

Obviously I'm in the 'honeymoon period', something Joe has passed (hence the ability to discuss flatulence without embarrassment - although in fact that never seems to have been an issue for him).

I love how people are choosing to use the format - from running away to an Elmer a day.

I love the fact that people can back-date stuff - I keep making discoveries, and I think it's right that tags are not the primary way of finding all these gems. Having said that, it won't be long before the 200-pictures-a-day mark is regularly reached (the daily numbers have already doubled since the New Year), and more active tagging would be handy for going back to images after you first discover them (more metadata).

What I love most of all though is the metadata that's so much more - the back-story, the random thoughts, the decisions, the wittering.

We live in a world surrounded by photos and 'information' where so many of these personal assets have been stripped away, and while images can and often should speak for themselves, the blip is much greater than the sum of its parts. Which could be said of blipfoto itself.

What a short strange trip it's been, but I'm enjoying the journey.